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A HUGE Spider! (UPDATED)

I found this HUGE spider in my house!!! That is the biggest spider I have ever seen in my life! :O

I don't know what kind of spider is that, can you please tell me!

I will give you some clues...

Found in south London UK

Has some hair all over its body and legs

Has dark red legs

Has brown/black body

Has two funny looking antenna (with a 'ball' on the end) on its head

Also, I used a pound coin and a penny to scale its size.

I hope you know what this creepy crawly is!

(UPDATED)Thank you for telling me what that spider is! A common brown spider...They are harmless, large, and very common in southern UK and in most places of the southern world... You americans should be happy about not having those giant spiders crawling around your homes.

Any walk in the woods around here will find argiope spiders and golden silk spiders. Personally in my yard I have Venusta orchard spiders, spiny orb weavers, black and brown widows (thou I try to keep them under control), various crab spiders and wolf spiders. The wolf spiders are great because as active hunters they keep the palmetto bugs under control. The pic down below is a Venusta orb weaver that was on my porch and an Argiope in my yard.

Ah, yes! I see what you are talking about. I have seen the all the spiders quite a few times in the forest and the swamps of Louisiana. I very often see the golden silks (I call then "banana spider"), they also make HUGE webs about two feet or more!

Banana spiders are awsome! They start out tiny and shed their exoskelton every week or so until they full size. They also build a trap door into their web. If you poke a banana spider on it's web, it goes straight throught to the other side.

at my cottage, on the docks, we have much larger (dock)spiders than that, their legs, from one side to the other can be up to 5 inches, and they can run on water, but dont think they bite, not like i give them the opportunity if it can be avoided...

whopped 3 of them in my office in the last month ,around here called fiddle back spiders ,the rock wall off back steps are full of black widow spiders they get nice and fat nether are aggressive as long as they eat the bugs and stay outside is fine with me.

i store my tools right under the house other day this fiddleback was waiting right inside the door ,scary part?have a terrible infestation of camel crickets under there too and they jump all over the place so that is past freaking out lol

I've been bitten twice by a brown recluse. It was hiding in my motorcycle jacket. When the weather got cool, and I put it on, he did not appreciate his home being invaded. My bites did not look THAT bad, but they sure hurt (I nearly wrecked the bike!). The spots grew to about the size of a quarter, turned black and peeled off.

I have another thing, the record for the worlds biggest spider species is the Goliath Birdeater spider. They can grow up to 11 inches (28 centimeters)! Here are a few more:SpeciesLengthSalmon Pink Birdeater 10.5 in (27 cm)Slate Red Ornamental 9 in. (23 cm)King Baboon 8 in. (20 cm)Colombian Giant Redleg 8 in. (20 cm)

I think I have found a larger one in my shed. Neglected, damp, dirt and rotting, I entered the shed and found it high in a corner feasting on all of the insects and other arachnids taking cover from the cold. When I examined it i found that with leg span it was larger than my hand!